I have written extensively for The Times Educational Supplement and have also written features for national dailies such as The Telegraph and The Times. As an English teacher and private tutor with over twenty years' teaching experience and good contacts in education, I can see directly how policy affects pupils in the classroom.
I write mainly but by no means exclusively on education. I often write think-pieces on what teaching tells us about life, e.g. how we use praise, how we deal with loss, the nature of worry. Some of these are funny, e.g. how to resign, how to spot a teacher.
My work has been illustrated by the cartoonist Grizelda. See 2006-2008 for examples on the Journalism page.
To read my archive, click on the relevant years below, or click on the underlined words above to read articles on particular topics.
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